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Changes to control of communication fabrics in Intel MPI and recommended settings for Microsoft Azure.

This post contains an exciting announcement, but first I need to provide some context! Ever heard that joke “the cloud is just someone else’s computer”? Of course it’s a gross over-simplification, but there’s more than a grain of truth in it. And ... [More] that raises the question: if your applications are running in someone else’s data-centre, […] The post Improving trust in the cloud with OpenStack and AMD SEV appeared first on Structured Procrastination. [Less]

Here's placement update 19-36. There won't be one next week, I will be away. Because of my forthcoming "less time available for OpenStack" I will also be stopping these updates at some point in the next month or so so I can focus the limited time I will have on …

Flash is more expensive than HDD, right? Not so fast.

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The vast majority of the ~15’000 physical servers in the CERN IT data centers rely on Software RAID to protect services from disk failures. With the advent of OpenStack Ironic to manage this bare metal fleet, the CERN cloud team started to work with ... [More] the upstream community on adding Software RAID support to Ironic’s feature list. Software RAID support in Ironic is now ready to be released with OpenStack’s Train release, but (backported to Stein) the code is already in production on more than 1’000 nodes at CERN. [Less]

Prometheus and InfluxDB are powerful time series database monitoring solutions, both of which are natively supported with graphing tool, Grafana. Setting up these simple but powerful open source tools gives you a great base for monitoring and ... [More] visualising your systems. We can use agents like node-exporter to publish metrics on remote hosts which Prometheus will […] [Less]

While my candidate statement goes in to some detail about why I wanted to run for the OpenStack Technical Committee (“TC”), I wanted to write a bit more about it to explain where I am coming from and what I feel I can offer. As far as the TC is ... [More] concerned, I am “new blood”. I have worked in some positions that are a part of OpenStack community stewardship before - in 2016 I spent a season as one of the election officials, and I have worked previously as an infrastructure liaison from the Neutron community. [Less]

Let's have a placement update 19-35. Feature freeze is this week. We have a feature in progress (consumer types, see below) but it is not critical. Most Important Three main things we should probably concern ourselves with in the immediate future: We are currently without a PTL for Ussuri. There's …